BIOL 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, Carl Linnaeus, Protozoa
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Types of microbes: how classified, carolus linnaeus developed taxonomic system for grouping similar organisms together, leeuwenhoek"s microorganisms grouped into 6 categories, bacteria, archaea, fungi, protozoa, algae, small multicell. Check understand: why did leeuwenhoek discover protozoa before bacteria, bc protozoa are larger than bacteria. Bacteria and archaea: unicellular and lack nuclei, smaller than eukaryotes, found where sufficient moisture, reproduce asexually, 2 kinds, bacteria: cell walls with peptidoglycan, archaea: with other polymers. Algae: uni or multicellular, photosynthetic (don"t cause much disease bc they don"t need us for energy, simple reproductive structures, categorized on the basis of pigmentation, storage products, and composition of cell wall. Other types: helminth: parasitic worm, blood fluke, multicellular; virus. Lecture 1. 2 the golden age and modern age of microbiology part 1. Scientific method: spontaneous generation debate scientific method, observation question, hypothesis, experiments (with control groups, results prove/disprove hypothesis, conclusions reflect results.
